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Appendix A – Letters of Support OPEN – AS&RED – 2-30 June 20, 2019 OPEN – AS&RED – 2-31 June 20, 2019 OPEN – AS&RED – 2-32 June 20, 2019 OPEN – AS&RED – 2-33 June 20, 2019 OPEN – AS&RED – 2-34 June 20, 2019 OPEN – AS&RED – 2-35 June 20, 2019 OPEN – AS&RED – 2-36 June 20, 2019 OPEN – AS&RED – 2-37 June 20, 2019 OPEN – AS&RED – 2-38 June 20, 2019 OPEN – AS&RED – 2-39 June 20, 2019 OPEN – AS&RED – 2-40 June 20, 2019 Appendix B – Financial Projections OPEN – AS&RED – 2-411 June 20, 2019 Please see first tab for instructions. GRADUATE PROGRAM PRO FORMA UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - Columbia (1) PROFORMA: Kinder MA in Atlantic History and Politics Projection as of 4/6/19 Prepared by: Amy Bohnert Approved by: Dr. Matt Martens & Dr. Justin Dyer PROGRAM: Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23 FY24 FY25 (2) Enrollment Projections Head Count Students - new incoming 20 20 20 20 20 Head Count Students - transfers within campus Student Credit Hours 3 60 3 60 360 3 60 360 Tuition Rate/Credit Hour 6 57 6 67 677 6 87 697 (3) Fee Rate/Credit Hour 4 2 4 3 43 4 4 45 (4) Scholarship Allowances ($) (5) Revenue Projections ***********************CALCULATED CELLS *********************** Tuition - - - 2 36,484 24 0,048 243,648 2 47,320 251,028 Supplemental & Other Fees - - - 1 5,120 1 5,336 15,552 1 5,768 16,020 Scholarship Allowances - - - - - - - - Net Tuition and Fees - - - 2 51,604 25 5,384 259,200 2 63,088 267,048 Other Income TOTAL PROGRAM REVENUE $0 $0 $0 $251,604 $255,384 $259,200 $263,088 $267,048 Recurring State Support TOTAL REVENUE $0 $0 $0 $251,604 $255,384 $259,200 $263,088 $267,048 (6) Expenditure Projections Faculty Salaries detail Technical Salaries detail Support Salaries detail Total Salaries - - - - - - - - Benefits - - - - - - - - Subtotal Salaries and Benefits $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 Operating Expense Computing Expenses NonCapital Maintenance & Repair Noncapital Equipment Supplies Professional & Consulting Travel & Training Misc. Expenses Subtotal Operating Expense - $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 (7) One-time Expenditures (Startup Costs) (9) Additional Space Costs Subtotal One-time Expense $ - $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 TOTAL EXPENDITURES $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 DIRECT MARGIN $0 $0 $0 $251,604 $255,384 $259,200 $263,088 $267,048 CUMULATIVE DIRECT MARGIN $0 $0 $0 $251,604 $506,988 $766,188 $1,029,276 $1,296,324 Subtract: (9) Revenue from Transfers within Campus NET MARGIN TO THE CAMPUS $0 $0 $0 $251,604 $255,384 $259,200 $263,088 $267,048 CUMULATIVE NET MARGIN TO THE CAMPUS $0 $0 $0 $251,604 $506,988 $766,188 $1,029,276 $1,296,324 (10) Campus Overhead Allocation $ 125,802 $ 127,692 $ 129,600 $ 131,544 $ 133,524 MARGIN AFTER CAMPUS OVERHEAD $0 $0 $0 $125,802 $127,692 $129,600 $131,544 $133,524 CUMULATIVE MARGIN AFTER CAMPUS OVERHEAD $0 $0 $0 $125,802 $253,494 $383,094 $514,638 $648,162 (11) Assumptions: a. Assuming an increase in the per credit hour Tuition Rate and A&S Supplemental Fee Rate of 1.5% per year. b. Maximum class size of 20 students used for estimates. c. Assuming 100% of students enrolled are Missouri residents. d. No operating costs associated with Degree Program, is to be accomplished with Kinder Institute's current faculty after proposed expansion. e. Campus Overhead built on current model of 50% of generated revenue. f. Conservative revenue estimate used for proforma calculations. Total program is a 30 credit hour maximum with 15 credits through new courses taught by Kinder Faculty and assuming 20% of remaining 15 credit hours being taught by Kinder Faculty. Other 80% of remaining 15 credit hours of elective & disciplinary not included. OPEN – AS&RED – 2-42 June 20, 2019 Appendix C – Initial List of Elective Courses OPEN – AS&RED – 2-43 June 20, 2019 Though not at all a comprehensive list, courses that might be applied toward these elective credits will include: a. Interdisciplinary Kinder Institute Courses (to be proposed) CONST DEM 8xxx: Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World: Theory and History CONST DEM 8xxx: Democracy in America: Ideals and Reality CONST DEM 8xxx: Nation and Empire in the Atlantic World CONST DEM 8xxx: The History of the Special Relationship b. Research Seminars (at least 3 hours required) HIST 8001: Seminar in the History of Colonial America HIST 8020: Seminar in the Early American Republic HIST 8031: Seminar in U.S. Sectionalism, Civil War & Reconstruction HIST 8040: Seminar in Imperial History HIST 8211: Seminar in Recent United States History HIST 8401: Seminar in U.S. Women’s History HIST 8416: Seminar in African-American History POL_SC 9210: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties POL_SC 9220: Constitutional Law: Institutions and Powers c. History Graduate Courses HIST 7000: Age of Jefferson HIST 7030: History of the Old South HIST 7040: Slavery and the Crisis of the Union: The American Civil War Era HIST 7050: American Colonial History to 1760 HIST 7060: The Period of the American Revolution, 1760-1789 HIST 7070: Indians and Europeans in Early America HIST 7260: The Age of Ascendancy: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1945-Present HIST 7415: African Americans and American Justice HIST 7570: Intellectual History of Europe, 17th and 18th Centuries HIST 7610: Early Modern Britain, 1450-1688 HIST 7620: Modern England HIST 7650: Revolutionary France, 1789-1851 HIST 7670: From the Holy Roman Empire to the First World War: German History, 1750-1918 HIST 7910: History in the Public: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Public History HIST 8021: Studies in the Early American Republic HIST 8022: Studies in the Age of Jackson, 1824-1850 HIST 8030: Studies in Sectional Controversy, Civil War and Reconstruction HIST 8455: Studies in the History of American Diplomacy HIST 8460: Studies in Trans-Atlantic History HIST 8551: Studies in Early Modern European History HIST 8570: Studies in Modern European History OPEN – AS&RED – 2-44 June 20, 2019 d. Political Science Graduate Courses POL SC 9100 American Political Behavior POL SC 9120 Voting and Elections POL SC 9140 American Political Institutions POL SC 9145 American State Politics POL SC 9150 Political Parties POL SC 9170 Legislative Institutions POL SC 9175 Evolution of American State Legislatures, 1619 to the Present POL SC 9180 Executive Politics POL SC 9200 Judicial Behavior POL SC 9230 Public Law POL SC 9240 Racial and Ethnic Politics POL SC 9300 Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations POL SC 9310 Public Policy POL SC 9320 Administrative Politics POL SC 9430 International Political Economy POL SC 9450 International Conflict and Strategic Studies POL SC 9460 Coercive Diplomacy POL SC 9470 Theories of Civil War POL SC 9620 Politics of Industrial Societies POL SC 9680 Politics of Development POL SC 9690 Democracy and Dictatorship POL SC 9700 Democratization e. Truman School Graduate Courses PUB AF 8150 Collaborative Governance PUB AF 8170 Public Policy Processes and Strategies PUB AF 8171 Environmental Policy PUB AF 8174 Social Policy PUB AF 8190 Economic Analysis for Public Affairs PUB AF 8210 Public Service and Democracy PUB AF 8340 Regional and Economic Development Policy PUB AF 8850 Policies and Institutions of the European Union PUB AF 9150 Governance and Public Affairs PUB AF 9170 Policy Theory OPEN – AS&RED – 2-45 June 20, 2019 Appendix D – Postdoctoral Junior Research Fellow MOU OPEN – AS&RED – 2-46 June 20, 2019 Memorandum of Understanding University of Missouri Kinder Institute and Rothermere American Institute This Memorandum of Understanding by and between Rothermere American Institute of the University of Okford (hereafter referred to as "the RAI") and The Curatorsof the University of Missouri on behalf of Universityof Missouri Kinder Institute (hereafter referred to as "MU"}. The two Institutes aboveseek to clarifythe contributions that the new Kinder Junior Research Fellow In Atlantic Historywill make to the Universityof Missouri during the three-year post beginning Octoberl, 2019, and housed in Oxford's Rothermere American Institute. The partieshereby agree to the followingterms: I. MU will fund the Fellow position by providing the RAIan annual wire of $75,000 USO. 2. The Fellow will be formally employed by the Universityof Oxford. J. TheFellow will assist the MU Kinder Institute in the program development and deliveryof MU's soon to be launched MA In Atlantic Historyand Politics, which will Include a summer study abroad component in Oxford. The successful candidate will assist In the curricula development and logistical arrangements for this new pro11ram,which will be launched In he academic year 2020· 21. 1. n,e Fellow w,11: lnvestiE!atehous'ing and dinin!Joptions for the MU master'sprorJram within O:cford Inform members of Oxford's flAI community of the aims and ambitions of the •�latlonshlp with Missouri's Kinder Institute �ssist in recruiUn� British-based applicants to MU's post-graduate programmes Identify possible tutors in Oxford who could assist In the teachln� delivery of the Missouri MA prolframme Assist in the development of the Missouri master's syllabus Collaboratewith members of the Kinder Institute on the above • Availability to teach the Oxfordleg of the MA programme (which will ffrst run in O><ford in late July•mid August 2D2D) 5. The fellow will not be required by Universityof O.lCford to engage in the marking of final �xaminallons, nor tutor more than three hours per week. r,, This Memorandum of Understanding is valid for three years and is effective October 1, 2019. Either party upon six month's advance notice to the other partya m y cancel the agreement.
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